VL-IV p133 a long sentence nobody has canonized...
Carvill, John
john.carvill at sap.com
Mon Feb 9 04:47:43 CST 2009
>From: Michael Bailey
>Subject: VL-IV p133 a long sentence nobody has canonized...
>
>but for those of us inspired (or taken in) by Vineland, Pynchon's umbra
of >genius is enough to take the sentence on faith. I've never tried to
unpack >it, really. Just clucked a little at its length and "pissed on
through" >like Eula in Vineland. But doesn't it kind of deal with
emotions, >characterization, feelings, the stuff Pynchon is (in)famous
for not doing?
Pynchon's work is full of the sort of stuff Pynchon is (in)famous for
not doing.
And yeah, great sentence, and great example of how Vineland isn't,
finally, Pynchon Ordinaire.
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